Upgrade on a budget

[172beast]

Decided to splash out on a new motherboard and cpu for my pc, on a budget, had 100 quid to spend (trackday yesterday was cancelled so got 125 quid refund lol), so I bought a asrock motherboard and Intel Pentium 4 D 805 Dual core 2x2.66GHz, total came to around 90 quid from Microdirect.

Did a bit of research and spotted this interesting article -> http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/05/10/dual_41_ghz_cores_uk/

Sounds to good to be true to me! Budget dual core overclocked to expensive dual core beating speeds? Anyone use this cpu and clocked it?

 

[FiDoDiDo]

Similar thing happened with the Opteron (think it was the 146) you could overclock it to much higher than it was set without any problem, I think Griff may have done it and a few others. They ended up being like gold dust.

 

[Clellandmc]

Similar thing happened with the Opteron (think it was the 146)

I think it was the Opteron 144 IIRC

 

[Adam K]

i have an 805d running at 3.8ghz

 

[1fast6]

What you need to understand is how much heat Smithfield pumps out. Even at standard clock its about 70w. Unless you are willing to spend another £150 on water cooling there will be no point overclocking the thing. Just stick to Prescott.

 

[172beast]

Yeah I've read it can run hot, but I've read it runs no hotter when clocked to, mixed reviews really. Guess I'll see when it comes, apparently theres summit called a Artic Freezer Cool 7 or summit thats not rate expensive and can cool it fine up to 4ghz anyway, I'll see what temps it runs at out the box then clock it and see what it runs out, see how hot it gets under loads and that.

 

[Griff]

Similar thing happened with the Opteron (think it was the 146)

I think it was the Opteron 144 IIRC

Indeed it was

 

[rich[182]]

seems fine to me
ps opteron 144's still available here for now
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/AMD_Opteron_64.html

 

[Griff]

seems fine to me
ps opteron 144's still available here for now
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/AMD_Opteron_64.html

Not with the right stepping codes anymore.

 

[16v_jon]

ive got an 805 running at 4ghz just needs a decent board and ram to get get that high, the whole pc is using 553watts at full load !!!!!

 

[an02rew]

i just use www.cclonline.com great service and not too bad priced, quick delivery

 

[Adam K]

ive got an 805 running at 4ghz just needs a decent board and ram to get get that high, the whole pc is using 553watts at full load !!!!!

are you running air or water cooling?

i get to 3.8ghz and under hard load it starts to get unstable, but i think it's down to a lack of power issue rather than anything else.

need a new psu, and some arctic silver to help with conducting heat. i run a zalman 9500 cooler.